Connection in action
Sharing nature-inspired updates on Biodiversity Legacy activities, partnerships and connections across our wide country and diverse landscapes.
Connecting with communities on Far South Coast of NSW
In June, members of the leadership team headed to Far South Coast to participate in workshop aimed at helping the community identify critically endangered Threatened Ecological Communities within the River Flat Eucalypt Forest.
The Secretive Quoll and the Rare Rock-wallaby
Biodiversity Legacy is one of several partners involved in a program to protect two nationally endangered species – the Spot-tailed Quoll and the Southern Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby – in East Gippsland.
Special Plants for Special Birds
The nationally threatened Glossy Black-cockatoo feeds almost exclusively on the seed cones of the Sheoak, which were affected by bushfires in East Gippsland. The Helping Hands project is revegetating stands of Sheoaks on private land, an important action to help recover the cockatoo population.
Strengthening wildlife corridors in South Gippsland
Landholders and nature lovers across South Gippsland are being encouraged to contribute to a Biolink Map being developed by the South Gippsland Landcare Network to give the community a bird’s eye view of potential wildlife corridors.
Land Covenantors Victoria unites for conservation
Launched in 2021 with the support of the Rendere Environmental Trust, EcoLands Collective and Trust for Nature, Land Covenantors Victoria quickly gained momentum, establishing itself as a model for locally-driven conservation.
Partnership to reverse biodiversity loss on Victoria’s Bass Coast
Biodiversity Legacy is pleased to announce a major partnership with Victoria’s Bass Coast Shire to tackle the biodiversity crisis through targeted actions to restore and protect habitat along this magnificent stretch of coast.
Survey highlights the importance of private land conservation
Two of Victoria’s most experienced ecologists and botanists recently surveyed three Trust for Nature properties in South Gippsland finding the largest stand of Endangered Slender Tree-ferns ever recorded, as well as other rare species.
Succession planning for farming families
Biodiversity Legacy Director, Jim Phillipson, was one of 40 speakers invited to present at the GROUNDED farming festival in Tasmania. Organised by farmers for farmers interested in regenerative farming practices, Jim’s talk focused on succession planning and how to have better conversations.
Why community conservation is the missing link
Also known as greenways, green belts, shelterbelts and wildlife corridors, biolinks are an attracting concept appealing to a broad cross section of people as a visible solution to habitat fragmentation. But do they work – and what makes them work?
Helping Hands for the Sheoak
Sheoaks are the main source of food for Glossy Black Cockatoo, whose habitat was severely impacted by the East Gippsland fires. The Helping Hands project builds on recovery works already undertaken to replant and restore Sheoaks on private properties.
Last stand for Endangered tree ferns
Around 10 years ago, Stuart Inchley and Victoria Johnson stumbled across a 300+ acre property for sale in the hills of South Gippsland. It took them several years to survey the property, finding large population of Critically Endangered Slender Tree-ferns.
Making connections for icon and threatened species
Given its commitment to landscape-scale ecological protection and the development of community biolinks, it follows that Biodiversity Legacy would also consider how to protect flagship and icon species.
Protecting our coastal saltmarshes
Fringing Corner Inlet in South Gippsland are some of the most floristically diverse coastal saltmarshes in the country – marshes that capture and store carbon at rates 30-50 times higher than the equivalent area of terrestrial forests.